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An Account of the Home Life, Leisure-Time Activities and Community Traditions of the Northumbrian Coal Miner, Dealing Mainly with the Period 1900 to 1930
Fryer, Sheila
1964
A dissertation based on interviews with seven miners and ex-miners from Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The first of its three chapters contains a biographical note on, and the recollections o...
"Gypsy and Dogs"
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s of a Gypsy Traveller male with two dogs, in the countryside at an unknown (English) location. The man appears to be sending the dogs into a field, possibly to c...
Farm Lad and Team
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s of a farm lad with his two-horse team, in the yard of a farm at Holderness (East Riding of Yorkshire). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1710. With ms. ...
Carter with Show Horse
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s of Mr. Pudsey, a carter from Rudston (East Riding of Yorkshire), with a horse specially decorated with paper and ribbons for a show. Mounted on Photo File card ...
Harvesting Team
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s of Mr. Pudsey, a carter, with another farmworker and harvesting team, Rudston (East Riding of Yorkshire). A cart loaded with hay can be seen in the background. ...
Old Sheep Washing Place: Outgang Beck
[1960s]
Copy of a photograph taken ca. 1930 of one of the periodical sheep washings on Outgang Beck at Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale), before the practice was discontinued. The beck has been dammed, and a farme...
Loading the Hay Wagon
[1970s]
Copy of a photograph taken in the 1930s, of two farmworkers loading a hay wagon at harvest time, in a field at Rudston (East Riding of Yorkshire). The wagon is a pole wagon, and is drawn by a two-hors...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Evans, George Ewart (1909-1988)
[1960s]
James Knights of Woodbridge [?recorded in 1968] talks about his work with horses; as horse man; learning from the age of thirteen; working in Yorkshire; horses' stables; travelling a stallion; going t...
Sound Recordings, Lancashire
Bauldie, J S
1969
Interviews with ex-coalminers from Abram, Hindley, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Shevington. Topics covered include work and leisure activities: whippets; practical jokes; beliefs; games (including Piggy, ...
Sound Recordings, County Durham
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Walsh, N Gordon
[1962]
Mr. Dawson, recorded in Medomsley in conversation with Stanley Ellis; talks about his job as a butcher; methods/techniques of killing cattle and processing; meat cuts and modern butchering; apprentice...
Sound Recordings, Lincolnshire
Sutton, Diane
2 Jan 1979 - 4 Jan 1979
Marjorie Sutton [collector's grandmother] and Irvin Sutton [collector's father] discuss pig-killing at Christmas; Lincoln butter market - travelling from Wragby to sell produce; Christmas parties - ga...
Sound Recordings, [Shropshire and Birmingham]
Carter, Julie
29 Dec 1978 - 4 Jan 1979
[Collector announcement - informant collector's grandmother]; Alice Payne 's recollections of Christmas in Shropshire - preparations, including collecting holly; presents; food (Christmas pudding, cak...